Manager Joe Torre just quit, the team is slumping its way to a losing season and the club's former owner, Peter O'Malley, recently called for the franchise to be sold, saying the team's current ownership had "lost all credibility" with the city.
And in case you forgot, Frank McCourt, the embattled current owner, is still battling his estranged wife Jamie for control of the Dodgers in a hotly-contested divorce trial that resumed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
The key issue in this phase of the divorce proceeding is the status of a marital property agreement the couple signed on March 31, 2004, shortly after they purchased the club from News Corp for nearly $430 million. Frank believes the MPA makes him the sole owner of the Dodgers in the event of a divorce, while Jamie contends that it should be invalidated because the couple signed two conflicting versions of the document.
Monday's session began with a bang, literally: Jamie's assistant hit a pedestrian with her car near a crosswalk in front of the courthouse, just before the trial began at 8:30 a.m. PT. Mrs. McCourt was in the vehicle at the time, but was not delayed getting to Judge Scott Gordon's second-floor courtroom. (An ambulance was called to help the pedestrian, but the injuries apparently were not serious.) Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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